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Insurtech for assessing medical risk and cost of care raises $1.5mn

i3 Systems is an Indian AI product company for insurers, to estimate the medical risk and cost of care. The products work seamlessly on digital and unformatted data in complex healthcare and financial documents. The startup plans to use the funds to advance technology that enables seamless adoption of their product across all repetitive business processes in the BFSI industry.

Alok Agarwal, CFO, Reliance Industries and Zhooben Bhiwandiwala, president, Mahindra Partners are co-investors in i3 systems along with Unitus Ventures

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RBI in process of constructing digital payment index to assess extent of digitisation: Exec director

“RBI is in the process of…constructing and periodically publishing a composite digital payment index (DPI) to capture the extent of digitisation. The DPI could be the key to accurately measure the deepening and penetration of digital payments across the country,” he said while addressing a webinar organised by the US-India Business Council.

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Indian Oil gets USTDA support in its green tech endeavour

The US Trade and Development Agency’s (USTDA) funding will support state-owned IOC’s evaluation of technologies to capture and utilise carbon dioxide produced during refinery operations, presenting a novel and cost-effective environmental strategy that can be expanded to other refineries in India, according to a statement on Wednesday.

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India reports record daily jump of 95,735 Coronavirus cases

In the last 24 hours, 95,735 new infections were detected, with 1,172 deaths accounting for the highest single-day mortality figures in more than a month, to push the toll beyond 75,000.
The COVID-19 fatality rate has further dropped to 1.68 per cent while the recovery rate was recorded at 77.74 per cent

There are 9,19,018 active cases in the country which comprise 20.58 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated

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